Re: Re: utf-8 security issue in php - 2 CVEs?

[Pierre Joye <pierre.php () gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
<huzaifas () redhat com> wrote:
> On 11/16/2010 08:40 PM, Pierre Joye wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > New fixes or improved fixes, even for known flaw, get new CVE #. I was
> > not sure about that a couple of months ago, but that's the answer I
> > got when I asked about the policy for such cases. I think it makes
> > even more sense in this particular flaw.
> Right,
> However i am wondering why there is no mention of CVE-2009-5016 in the
> php NEWS file from the SVN.
> It only mentions:
>
> "
> - Fixed bug #49687 (utf8_decode vulnerabilities and deficiencies in the
> number
>  of reported malformed sequences). (CVE-2010-3870) (Gustavo)
> "

I only updated the NEWS for the upcoming release as the fix applies to
this specific CVE.

However I can add a ref to CVE-2009-5016 to the related NEWS entry
(for the record, as it was released already), if you have found it :)

-- 
Pierre

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